Ladies, Etsy Isn't Just for Jewels 'n' Shoes; Now, It Could Earn You $5K for Your Hacker Skills!

I nearly hit the roof when I heard this news last night. Our Etsy obsession here is no secret, but now we love them even more, 'cause the entrepreneurship platform announced yesterday that they're offering $50,000 in scholarship money to bring 10 women engineers to their New York headquarters this summer. Could you be one of them?

*In conjunction with Hacker School, > Etsy is announcing a new scholarship and sponsorship program for women in technology: we'll be hosting the summer 2012 session of Hacker School in the Etsy headquarters, and we're providing ten Etsy Hacker Grants of $5,000 each — a total of $50,000 — to women who want to join but need financial support to do so. Our goal is to bring 20 women to New York to participate, and we hope this will be the first of many steps to encourage more women into engineering at Etsy and across the industry.*Excuse me, let me clear my throat, but...ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME! Our hats--handmade and blinged-out, of course--are off and hoisted high in the air to Etsy for this fantastic effort. Marc Hedlund, VP of Engineering at Etsy, put up a fantastic blog post over at Etsy.com explaining his goals behind the project, as well as a lil' bit of history behind the Hacker School and ladies in engineering at Etsy.